RB Jordan Scarlett, offers from Alabama, LSU, Michigan St. and Wisconsin among others

That's an awful lot of D1 talent on the field, considering these schools aren't particularly big.

I can see why T-M's home field wouldn't be the greatest place to televise a game but I don't know why they moved the game all the way to Kings, about 50 miles from Trotwood, if they were just going to use a nicer high school field. If there's no crowd at the game, that's why.

I don't think T-M is a Toledo pipeline as much as it is that Beckman is extremely familiar with Ohio prospects and is notorious for throwing out early offers to generate interest. It's a small-conference tactic, but it could pay off with his move to Illinois.

Yes, really. I haven't followed high school football since I was in high school (25 years ago). Granted, I didn't go to a school who had any kind of national profile, but the only thing important then was the state championship.

Is there a national high school football championship or tournament? It surprises me that a high school could have a budget to travel halfway across the country to play a football game when so many schools can't even afford to have sports without pay-to-play, let alone classes in music or art.

these cross-country matchups were rare. When I was in school Moeller HS used to invite a Texas or Florida school to Cincinnati for a game each year (this was in Gerry Faust's heyday) and it was a novelty here.

I don't think we'll ever have to worry about Burrows at Ohio State. He struggled all summer in camps trying to cover real talent and doesn't really look to interested in coming up and providing run support now that they're playing actual football. I'd take #8 over Burrows if I needed a defensive back today.

It looks like he has been 50/50 throughought the game. Some times he has come up and given a good pop others he really looked to be taking the play off. He seems to be doing pretty well on Cunningham when he has been manned up though.

Per google maps, trotwood has a great stadium. I believe they are playing at Kings Mills because of ESPN. This is game 1 of a doubleheader featuring Gilman & Moeller. Despite having a spacious campus with top of the line facilities, Moeller doesn't have a big on campus stadium.

Per google maps, trotwood has a great stadium. I believe they are playing at Kings Mills because of ESPN. This is game 1 of a doubleheader featuring Gilman & Moeller. Despite having a spacious campus with top of the line facilities, Moeller doesn't have a big on campus stadium.

EDIT: Personal fouls for celebrations is one of those "sometimes you call them and sometimes you don't" type of calls. That was one of those times you should just stand aside and let the game happen as a ref.

Yeah this is getting pretty ridiculous. And it's the team from Florida that's cramping up. Wouldn't expect that. It's gotten to the point where that will be a serious issue for them in the 4th quarter. Trotwood should try to capitalize on this and run the football.

Wow, Burrows makes one tackle on a screen pass and they spend the next two minutes talking about how awesome Meyer is and Ohio State. Meanwhile, Burrows gets beat deep the very next play (overthrown unfortunately though).

Wow. McCray just destroyed the FB to make a TOS. And then follows that up by taking on an OL and blowing up a screen pass; almost made the tackle while getting tackled by the OL. Resulted in a hold so a really positive play by McCray.

Although Trotwood is not the nicest town, the school is ginormous. Plus their football stadium looks like a Texas High School's facility. It is big enough for them to host regional track championships & the like.

It was kind of a sleepy place, a town where the most important businesses were the grain elevator and the lumber yard. Sprawl from Dayton has overrun it and now it's like any inner-ring suburb...except that the sleepy town is still tucked away over there in the corner, with a lot of the same families that lived there a hundred years ago.

Most people think of Trotwood and they imagine Salem Mall; they've probably never been to the original town.